This silly claim gets repeated endlessly. Let me remind you of the constitutional process. It takes 3/4ths of the states to pass an amendment. It would take an amendment to abolish slavery.
Let's see. 11 slave states in the Confederacy would have required 44 total states in the Union to give them the 33 states needed to pass an amendment against the opposition of those 11.
It took till 1896 to get what would have been the 44th state. Now add to the opposition of the 11 Confederate states, the Opposition of the 4 or 5 Union slave states. That means you would have to have 64 states in the Union to override the objection of the slave states, if all the slave states held together.
So how was "Slave Power" threatened? Looks impossible to topple "Slave Power" in any reasonable length of time.
Lincoln himself said this at his first inaugural.
I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
He says he has no lawful right to do so. (Boy, he changed his mind about that, didn't he?)
Exactly, slavery wasn’t actually gonna actually be abolished so why did the snowflake Slave owners freak out when someone they didn’t like won the election? The government even tried to pass an amendment forever enshrining slavery (Corwin amendment)
Cause having a federal government that wasn’t at their beck and call wasn’t acceptible to them. The feds might stop enforcing the fugitive slaves laws (at least they feared the would and claimed they would in their secessionist propaganda). There would be no expansion of slavery to the western territories. The Senate would have an ever expanding free state majority. In short it seems like the idiot bastard snowflake slave owners just freaked out, what a bunch of losers.
BTW would you have tried to escape if you were a slave?